In the early twentieth century, office jobs allowed increasing numbers of women a new option for careers. Sharon Hartman Strom's detailed account of early office working conditions and practices draws on archival and anecdotal data to analyze women office workers' ambitions. She also explores how the influences of scientific management, personnel management, and secondary vocational education affected office workplaces and hierarchies.
| ISBN: | 9780252064258 |
| Publication date: | 1st November 1994 |
| Author: | Sharon Strom |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 464 pages |
| Series: | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History |
| Genres: |
Labour / income economics |